RR key dates Flashcards
9th of January, 1905
Bloody Sunday
1861
Alexander II emancipated the serfs
1881
Alexander II assassinated by ‘People’s Will’
1891
construction of Trans Siberian Railway begins
1893-1903
‘great spurt’ - Sergei Witte
1894-1917
Reign of Nicholas II
1898
SD’s formed
1903
SD’s become Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
8th of Feb 1904 - August 1905
Russo-Japanese war
14th of May, 1905
Battle of Tsushima
14th of June, 1905
Potemkin Mutiny
17th of October, 1905
October Manifesto issued
23rd of April, 1906
Fundamental Laws issued
27th of April, 1906
First Duma opens
June, 1906
Stolypin appointed Prime-Minister
1911
Stolypin assassinated
April 5th, 1912
Lena Goldfields Massacre
1st August, 1914
Russia enters WW1
August, 1915
Tsar Nicholas takes command of army
December 16th, 1916
Rasputin murdered
18th of January, 1917
Putilov steel works strikes (beginning of Feb revolution)
23rd of Feb, 1917
International Women’s Day marches
26th of Feb, 1917
Duma forms Provisional committee
27th of Feb, 1917
Petrograd Garrison mutinies - tsar has no military control, Petrograd Soviet reforms
1st March, 1917
Soviet Order No. 1 issued
2nd of March, 1917
Tsar abdicates
4th of April, 1917
Lenin arrives in Petrograd - delivers April Thesis
June, 1917
Kerensky’s June Offensive
3rd - 6th of July, 1917
July Days
3rd of July, 1917
Prince Lvov resigns as Prime Minister
21st of July, 1917
Kerensky becomes Prime Minister
24th to the 29th of August, 1917
Kornilov affair
23rd of October, 1917
Kerensky takes offensive against Bolsheviks
25th of October, 1917
Storming of Winter Palace, Second Congress meet
